SDP's Work with the NHS

SDP engages with the National Health Service (NHS) both through its ongoing work with its Affiliate Member NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and through bespoke projects with other NHS Trusts. 

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SDP Raises Awareness of NHS National Community Benefit Gateway Portal for Glasgow

The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) is working with NHS Greater Glasgow, and Clyde (NHSGGC) and NHSGGC Public Health, to help suppliers and Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) better understand how to use the NHS National Community Benefit Gateway (NCBG) portal for Glasgow.

The NCBG web portal was developed and launched by NHS Scotland National Services (NSS) to link national NHS contracts to local community benefit needs.

Working with NHSGGC and its Public Health colleagues, SDP will deliver a programme of webinars to improve TSOs' submissions on the NCBG for Glasgow.

These webinars will focus on bid writing, and tailored support to make TSOs' community benefit applications on NCBG portal more attractive to larger NHS contractors, to encourage them to adopt them in their bids and eventually deliver them throughout the course of contracts.

The SDP NCBG webinars are ideal for those working in TSOs, such as:

• Registered charities
• Co-op and mutuals
• Supported businesses
• Social firms
• Community Interest Groups (CIGs)
• Development trusts
• Credit unions
• Registered social landlords

If your organisation falls into one of these categories, then why not join the training!

Register with SDP, and sign up to SDP’s newsletter for invites to the webinars.

Register now

For further enquiries please contact info@sdpscotland.co.uk

#OpenForBusiness #PowerOfProcurement

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SDP Encourages Local Businesses to Supply Goods, Works and Services to NHSGGC 

Each region of Scotland has a Health Board with its own procurement department. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) covers six local authority areas in the Glasgow City Region and has an annual budget of £4.4bn.

NHSGGC covers

• East Dunbartonshire
• East Renfrewshire
• Glasgow City
• Inverclyde
• Renfrewshire
• West Dunbartonshire.

SDP and NHSGGC want to encourage more SME suppliers to join its supply chain, by highlighting the wide range of opportunities tendered by the NHS, through training webinars and networking events that debunk the notion that the NHS only procures medical or pharmaceutical requirements.

About SDP

SDP is a business support initiative supported by Scottish Government, and all 32 Scottish local authorities, as well as other public and private sector organisations.

SDP helps businesses bid better when they have little or no experience tendering for public sector contracts, or are too small to have dedicated bid team.

Simply, SDP is a free service to support Scottish SMEs, supported businesses and third sector organisations become tender ready for contracts.

For further information contact info@sdpscotland.co.uk

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NHSGGC, NHS Lanarkshire and SDP Supply Chain Diversity Project

From April to December 2022, The Supplier Development Programme (SDP) worked with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) and NHS Lanarkshire on pilot project to diversify the NHS GGC supply chain.

The project encouraged SMEs and businesses owned/ led by people with ‘protected characteristics’ (such as disabilities or minority group statuses) to bid for NHS GGC contracts.

During the project the partners delivered research, marketing materials and tender training webinars.

SDP provided 6 supplier engagement and tender training webinars to 136 attendees from 127 unique Scottish businesses.

Read the project outcomes report

 

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